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“The crowd since I’ve been here have been right behind us and that is a game that might have gone away from us, especially at home when the onus is on the home team to make the running, but the crowd have been absolutely great.”

He said Darren Fletcher’s half-time withdrawal was down to a tactical switch, explaining: “I just felt we had an extra man in the middle of the pitch and didn’t utilise it. It was nothing to do with anything except putting an extra one up top and going like for like.

“This is too big a club to sit and wait for things to happen, I think you’ve got to make things happen.”